Suited to Understand
Doctors in our Montana Family Medicine Residency are getting specialized training to help increase their skills and empathy for patients who may have to cope with multiple infirmities as they age.
First Confirmed Flu Case in Yellowstone County
With holiday travel, family celebrations and other large gatherings, residents should take the first confirmed case of influenza in the county as a warning to get their annual flu shot. Anyone over the age of six months can get the vaccine each year.
Food for Thought: Online Restaurant Inspection Results
We’ve made it easy for the public to look at the results of restaurant inspections on our website. The inspections are simply “snapshots” of the day and time of the inspection, but the goal is to improve food safety and recognize restaurants with good food safety practices.
Hospice Home Marks 5th Anniversary
“What we need as humans is to spend our last days…living in as high a quality as possible, to spend our last days in dignity, in comfort and in peace,” said Richard Opper, director of the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, at the fifth anniversary of the RiverStone Health Hospice Home.
RiverStone Health Breaks Ground on New Clinic
In a ceremony that started with short speeches and ended with gold-colored shovels and an inter-tribal honor song, RiverStone Health broke ground on a new $11 million clinic.
Is There a Doctor in the House?
Dr. Joy Welty, a third-year resident in our Montana Family Medicine Residency, talks about striking a work/life balance and what she’s learned from her patients.
Empowering Patients
John Felton, President and CEO of RiverStone Health, discusses the move toward comprehensive primary and preventive care to improve health.
A Passion to Give Back
Money was tight when Dr. Megan Littlefield, RiverStone Health’s Medical Director, was growing up in a single-parent family, but she learned to give back. Today she pays it forward by teaching doctors in the Montana Family Medicine Residency, seeing patients at RiverStone Health Clinic and at our Orchard School Clinic.
Growing STEM Stars
Claire Oakley, Director of Population Health Services at RiverStone Health, helped girls design an experiment on the effects of exercise as part of Girls-n-Science STEM Stars at Montana State University Billings. STEM Stars helps introduce youngsters to careers in science, technology, engineering and math.
RiverStone’s healthy investment in all of us
Gazette Opinion: “For all of us who call Yellowstone County home, this patient-centered public health clinic is an excellent investment in our community.” RiverStone Health is reaching out to private donors to complete the $11 million new clinic, which will be named the Ballard Center, after the lead donors.
